Desert island, burrow, grave : wartime hiding places of Jews in occupied Poland

Desert island, burrow, grave wartime hiding places of Jews in occupied Poland

This book is an anthropological essay which aims to capture the elusive phenomenon of hideouts employed by Jews persecuted during the Second World War. Oscillating between life and death, the Jewish hideouts were a space of the most diverse and extremely complex human relations – a specific realm of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cobel-Tokarska, Marta, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2018
Berlin : [2018]
Colección:Warsaw studies in Jewish history and memory ; Volume 11.
Materias:
Jews > History.
Poland > History > Occupation, 1939-1945.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429961006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Subject
  • Definitions
  • State of research and literature
  • Research questions, structure
  • Critique of sources
  • Methodology
  • 1. An attempted typology of the hiding places
  • temporary and long-term hiding places
  • Temporary hiding places
  • Long-term hiding places
  • Independent--assisted hiding places
  • Hiding places "under the same roof"
  • Hiding places "at a distance"
  • City, countryside, no man's land
  • Hiding places in cities
  • Big cities
  • Small and medium-sized cities
  • Hiding places in the countryside
  • No man's land
  • Woodland hiding places
  • Concentration camps, labor camps, death camps, places of execution and other "excluded areas"
  • Solitary - collective hiding places
  • Wandering - looking for a hiding place
  • Summary
  • 2. Hiding place as a space. Perspective of social and individual experience
  • Part I. Hiding place as a social space
  • Part II. Individual perception of space
  • Summary
  • 3. Meanings in a space of a hiding place
  • Space of a hiding place - in search of meanings
  • Center and peripheries, oppositions of directions, the sacred and the profane
  • Availability and boundaries
  • Symbolical spaces of hiding places, archetypes and meanings encapsulated in tests
  • Summary
  • 4. Hiding place and a home
  • Home
  • Summary
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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